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Sorry to not bring any numbers, but game definitely runs worse than it did before the campaign update. Campaign runs like crap compared to the previously available SP scenarios, and MP feels even slower now.

Arma Fanboys will always point at hardware specs, then mission scripting, then server setup/performance...before they ever cast a suspicious eye or a critical word at the core game code or the size of the map (Altis). Thats just how they roll...

I can't say that Ive ever seen BIS officially post anything for Arma3 commenting on overall poor performance, core code issues, or fps consistency problems. They obviously know about it but are unwilling or unable to address it.

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I'm shocked to see that the game after the latest update runs worse than before. It makes me wonder and I consider quitting the game cause I'm tired of all the talk but no results.

I mean at least don't make it worse if you can't improve the performance. Forget optimization but keep it as it is instead of destroying it.

Counting minus -3-5 FPS with the latest update.

Thank you!!

Why are you shocked? They added a bunch of "STUFF" that didn't improve performance. Lets face it...they either don't care about performance or playability ...OR they don't know how to fix it. Its not really surprising. They are more interested in adding pretty stuff..bells and whistles than they are in making the game more playable / fun. I wouldn't be surprised if they sit in the cubicles at BIS...play on their core i7's with GTX Titans, across the LAN and think the game runs peachy...

On an up note:

- I now have pretty light beams shining through the trees.

- I actually did stop and look at them several times today.

- Then I got shot at...wheeled around...my fps dropped 20 pts.

- The game took three seconds to recover.

- I was dead...laying there looking up at the sun shining through the trees...

- It really was pretty though.

In retrospect, I'd like some falling leaves from the trees next time. Something to cover my dead body with and eat up another computing cycle or two. Can we get that in the next update BIS. Please. I'm off to post my feature request in the issue tracker..

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Even with an i7 overclocked to the max and a GTX Titan, the game really only runs "acceptably". The problem is really not a lack of "computer horsepower" but rather a total lack of use of that horsepower. It's always been an issue with the RV engine even back to ArmA.

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Why are you shocked? They added a bunch of "STUFF" that didn't improve performance. Lets face it...they either don't care about performance or playability ...OR they don't know how to fix it. Its not really surprising. They are more interested in adding pretty stuff..bells and whistles than they are in making the game more playable / fun. I wouldn't be surprised if they sit in the cubicles at BIS...play on their core i7's with GTX Titans, across the LAN and think the game runs peachy...

On an up note:

- I now have pretty light beams shining through the trees.

- I actually did stop and look at them several times today.

- Then I got shot at...wheeled around...my fps dropped 20 pts.

- The game took three seconds to recover.

- I was dead...laying there looking up at the sun shining through the trees...

- It really was pretty though.

In retrospect, I'd like some falling leaves from the trees next time. Something to cover my dead body with and eat up another computing cycle or two. Can we get that in the next update BIS. Please. I'm off to post my feature request in the issue tracker..

I think removing some/all of the animals and other useless things such as dragonfly's,butterflies and fish the game and players simply don't need .Do wee need to have fish and sea grass one kilometer out to sea?

That would save a cycle or two?

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The performance issues, low fps in mp + memory leaks(degrading fps in mp), and the general lack of obvious content and features (mostly in Arma3) got me to leave this game series (and BIS!) which I bought and played since OFP . It's just too unsatisfying and I consider it disrespectful attitude and behavior from BIS towards the players cause by maybe a lack of (human + financial) resources on many levels. Also my interests chanced with age in a more in non-gaming and real life direction so I can't allocate so much time and tolerance(!) to a game in this state of functioning as before. I like the non-troublesome functioning and high fps of BF3+4, which I play occasionally with great fun although it's arcade style world sometimes annoys me great :D

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Best test was to move to Kavala. Before the Update, I was able to go through that Town fluently (On some MP-Mission). Now after the Update, it starts stuttering on the same Settings... Event turned nearly everything on low... not getting any better :/ what happened, BIS?

The first error ( On one monitor I got server: asm, rpt, and procexp and the other I play ) I noticed that when this error ( the first ) after a while finished to spam my rpt server fps went from 10 to 47. Maybe it's a coincidence but this error was heavy spammed ( and before never seen it ) also in the other play we did and we got the same performance ( game almost unplayable ) , when this went out from rpt server fps and client ( after a while ) returned to normale value.